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Richard D. Collins, a New York lawyer who specializes in steroid defense, wrote in a professional journal that seizures of steroids are often large because of the way they are used -- in cycles. Police often misidentify them, too, he wrote in a 2002 article for The Champion, the magazine published by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Collins, who was out of his office last week, wrote that steroids are unfairly considered a Schedule III drug alongside methamphetamine, barbiturates and other potent drugs -- all thanks to anti-steroid propaganda erupting from "cheating" scandals in professional sports.
The steroid hysteria, Collins said, has prompted some judges and juries "to view anabolic steroids as an even greater social menace than narcotics." Collins wrote that steroids are fairly harmless when used properly: "Many more people have died or been permanently injured from botched liposuctions and other cosmetic surgery procedures in the past few years than in over 40 years of non-medical anabolic steroid use."